bug-bash
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: wait -n misses signaled subprocess


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: wait -n misses signaled subprocess
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2024 14:54:45 -0500
User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird

On 1/29/24 7:54 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
On Jan 29 2024, Robert Elz wrote:

I always wondered why the option was 'n'

n = next?

Yes: the original implementation polled the non-terminated background jobs
and returned when one of them exited.

--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
                 ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU    chet@case.edu    http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/

Attachment: OpenPGP_signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature


reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]